LIVE THREAD: Tony Blair Arrives in U.S. & Addresses Congress

www.freerepublic.com | July 17, 2003

[Howlin]

C-SPAN LIVE FEED

[EllaMinnow]

Word on Capitol Hill is that Hillary wore a skirt today...

[swheats]

My choice of color

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/images/election/july-dec00/hillary4.jpg

With or without the sweater.

[RightWingMama]

Thanks Howlin for keeping the "cubicle bound" informed.

[RoseofTexas]

Now MSNbc is now reporting that Floridah's senator
Gramhan(sp?)is calling for W's impeachment!! C'mon W FIGHT!!This is getting totally OUTTA HAND!!

[Mo1]

Don't you worry .. he will slam these idiots out of the Park

[Mo1]

Light Blue .. got it ..

[Mo1]

Black with a white stripe down the back

LoL .. I'd love to see that one

[mhking]

Now that's just plain scary!

[gop212]

I bet she wears the Torrie Clark Pentagon Jacket from the situation room threads.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

The RNC better be collecting the sound bites from the Dems-Kerry,Graham,Dean,Durbin,etc for commercials. I expect to see the quotes from the Saddam tapes- "where are the WMD's,huh,huh" from last week's tape and from today's tape" Bush and Blair lied."I want the ads to show the quote, with the appropriate somber music and images in the background and then the announcer somberly intones- "Who said this? Saddam Hussein or John Kerry?"And then the somber voice reveals that actually both of them said it. The Democrats participated in a civil union with Saddam this week and we should never let that be forgotten.Never.

[EllaMinnow]

Yeah...but the ankles are too thin for it to be a really good resemblance.

[mabelkitty]

I bet $10 Moveon.org has it on their site.

[EllaMinnow]

You'll like this latest from Mark Steyn!

"I wrote a gazillion pieces urging war with Iraq, and never found the time to let the word Niger pass my lips. And, if it had passed, my lips would have said ‘Ny-juh’ and not ‘Nee-zhaire’. But here’s what the President had to say, when he ‘LIED OVER NIGER URANIUM CLAIMS!!!!!!!!!!!’ back in the State of the Union address in January: ‘The British government has learnt that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.’

That’s it: 16 words. Where’s the lie? Though the CIA director George Tenet now says his boys shouldn’t have approved that sentence, Tony Blair is standing by it. The unusual attribution to Her Majesty’s Government might have been because Bush was only mired in all this multilateral justification-shopping as a favour to Blair and his wobbly Cabinet. Or it might have been because of the source: under the rules governing intelligence-sharing, the British were unable to pass the direct evidence on to the Americans because they got it from the French, and the French wouldn’t let them give it to Washington. Niger’s uranium operations are under the supervision of the French Atomic Energy Commission.

But, whether or not that’s true, I repeat: where’s the lie? Why isn’t it merely a good-faith mistake? The anti-war crowd have been wrong on everything, from hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths to environmental catastrophe, from the horrors of the ‘brutal Afghan winter’ — now 22 months behind schedule — to those of the brutal Iraqi summer, which George Galloway was still trying to flog in the Guardian this week: ‘The US and British armies have entered the gates of hell. Soon it will be 100 degrees at midnight in Baghdad, but there will be no respite from the need for full body armour.’ Really? The average overnight low in July (Baghdad’s hottest month) is 77. On Monday night, after an unusually hot day, by 10.30 p.m. it was already down to a pleasant 83. But I would be reluctant to send out email alerts shrieking GALLOWAY LYING OVER IRAQI WEATHER CLAIMS!!!! Could be just an honest mistake."

[codercpc]

When Tony Blair addresses the Congress, will he also be answering questions from them? or is this a prepared speech?

[Mo1]

That is what is called a sure bet ;0)

[swheats]

She definately would get attention with that on. LOL

[Boston]

If anyone wants to email thanks to Blair, they can do it via http://www.thankyoutony.com

Currently, Blair's official website doesn't accept email.

[Howlin]

I just heard on Fox that he will be having a press conference with President Bush at the White House at 5:30 P.M. EDT.

[mabelkitty]

Yes, this was planned. However, Tenet is Clinton's boy, and W kept him on and has been keeping tabs on his activities. Same with Mueller. Me thinks they should have high tailed it out of there when they had the chance.

[Mo1]

FOFL ..